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Useful Tips for iPad Typing
Do you know the shortcuts for typing on the iPads keyboard? To help you type quickly on your iPad, here we show some useful iPad typing tips for you.
Tips for iPad Typing - 1
When you type and arrive at the end of a sentence, you can double-tap the space bar and it will type a period for you. When you start to type the next sentence, the first letter of the word will automatically be capitalized.
Tips for iPad Typing - 2
To enable Caps Lock, double tap the "shift" key. Cap Lock has to be enabled in settings first. Go to settings, general, keyboard, then Enable Caps Lock.
Tips for iPad Typing - 3
To bring up the apostrophe without swapping keyboards, hold the "!" key.
Tips for iPad Typing - 4
When you are typing a website URL in the address bar of the Safari browser, there's a special ".com" key in the keyboard that you can tap to quickly complete the web address. However, if the website that you are trying to reach doesn't end with a .com, you can still use that key. Just hold it for a while and it will give you an option to choose other popular TLDs including .edu, .org and .net.
Tips for iPad Typing - 5
When typing an email address in the To: or CC /BCC field of the Mail program, press and hold the dot (.) key and you'll get a list of domain shortcuts in a pop-up to auto-complete the email address.
Tips for iPad Typing - 6
If you want to edit a url or text in a search box without deleting everything, hold your finger down on the area you want to edit, after a couple of seconds a magnifier will appear, now you can move your finger to precisely where you want to edit.
Tips for iPad Typing - 7: Most Used Words
The typing completion feature works really well for word contractions like "can'’t", "it's", "they're", etc. You don't have to type the apostrophe for these kind of words. Just type "theyre" and the apostrophe will automatically be typed for you when you hit the space bar.
The same goes for many proper nouns like "iTunes", "iPad", or "Twitter". If it doesn’t suggest the correct spelling, including the capitalization, simply make the correction yourself and the next time you type the word, the correct spelling should come up as a suggestion.
Tips for iPad Typing - 8: Cut, Copy &Paste
Type a sentence in the Notebook app. Now double-tap on a word, causing it to be highlighted and selected. A pop-up menu will appear for cutting or copying the selected word. Another option will be for pasting a copied selection, and finally there may be an option for replacing the word with what the iPad thinks is the word you’re trying to type.
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